BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Tuesday constituted a task force that would prepare and implement a plan for provisioning medical oxygen in all the healthcare facilities of the state. The task force will be headed by Asit Tripathy, principal ...
19 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim, arrested in the Narada sting case, is not really bothered about his plight in jail, but his inability to discharge duties for people amid the Covid-19 surge has left him ill at ease, ...
19 May 2021 Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: The CBI has found nothing "so far" against Mukul Roy, who switched from the Trinamool Congress to the BJP, and Lok Sabha TMC member Aparupa Poddar in the 2014 Narada sting tape case, while its application seeking ...
19 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The West Bengal government will set up "safe homes" for Covid-19 patients in schools in several districts which have been witnessing a spurt in coronavirus cases, an education department official said on Tuesday. The department has asked administrations ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaBHUBANESWAR: As was widely anticipated, the Odisha government on Tuesday extended the ongoing lockdown from May 5—which was scheduled to end on Wednesday—by two weeks to 5 am on June 1 and further tightened the curbs amid continued new ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaIMPHAL: The Manipur Police has booked journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem and activist Erendro Leichombam under the National Security Act (NSA) for their allegedly derisive social media posts involving state BJP chief S Tikendra Singh, following his demise due to Covid-19 ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal minister Subrata Mukherjee, TMC MLA Madan Mitra and former party leader Sovan Chatterjee, who were arrested by the CBI in the Narada sting case, were admitted to a hospital here on Tuesday after they complained of ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: To properly dispose off the daily generated biomedical waste, the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has placed yellow waste bins at some places to dump all the biomedical wastes including used masks, gloves and PPE kits into ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Beware of night vision cameras tracking vehicles out on the roads. Those venturing out between 9pm and 5am, assuming there will not be cops on the streets, may receive a message on their phones, seeking an explanation on ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Supply lines of perishables were affected in markets across Kolkata as vendors tripped on the e-pass procedures and were unable to replenish depleting stocks on Monday. A sharp rise in transportation cost added to the problem, pushing up ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amidst all the tension and uncertainties, it was a sort of family reunion for former Trinamool minister and BJP leader Sovan Chatterjee who had his friend Baisakhi Banerjee, his estranged wife and newly elected MLA Ratna Chatterjee and ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: West Bengal Transport Corporation provided bus services to those arriving in the city by long-distance trains and flights. As not too many passengers were around, at both railway stations and the airport, they had to wait for a ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has barred three health facilities, owned by the same individual, from admitting new patients till further notice following complaints of inflated bills. All three cater to Covid patients. “We have asked ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: While Narada News boss Mathew Samuel, who “raised a fight against corruption”, is happy with the proactive CBI, the man who conducted the sting operation also raised questions about not arresting the BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. “It was ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Amid demand for arrest of BJP leaders Mukul Roy and Suvendu Adhikari and allegations of “vindictive attitude” of the Centre, the BJP said the law will take its own course. The party, on the other hand, lodged a ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Covid-19 protocols and enhanced restrictions were challenged in pockets of Kolkata as hundreds of angry Trinamool Congress supporters spilled out on the streets on Monday demanding the release of senior party leaders, arrested in the 2016 Narada sting ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A combined impact of a spurt in Covid admissions and ban on public transport has driven away patients from the OPDs (out-patient department) across Kolkata’s private hospitals. Even as the demand for a bed rises, OPDs, like last ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: A bank employee was prosecuted for boarding a staff special local train at the Bidhannagar station on Monday. The action triggered protests from several bank associations and unions who demanded Railways allow them to commute by train as ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: When Lake Road resident, Sukanya Banerjee, was down with fever a couple of months ago, the fears that she had been nursing since the outbreak of the pandemic suddenly came true. With no doctor’s chamber in the neighborhood, ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Many people braved travel restrictions to reach vaccination centres for jabs on Monday, the first working day after the restrictions were announced on Saturday. Even as the vaccination process was smooth at the Covid vaccination centres (CVCs) in ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The pandemic has once again pushed people into restrictions as managers and executives grapple to piece together work-from-home (WFH) and business continuity solutions. “The restriction brings in me deja vu of same time last year. While one wallows ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The imposing four-storey building of the Birkmyre Hostel on Middleton Row will soon be a safe home run by the state health department. Owned by Dr Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong, the 121-year-old boarding school in the Hills, the hostel ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: In a bid to develop more localised and robust protocols on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19, the state health department on Monday set up a Covid-19 Clinical Research Steering Committee to guide and oversee planning, conduct data ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Since Monday afternoon, buses with oxygen concentrators have been parked outside major state hospitals to serve as units for the first line of treatment for Covid patients experiencing respiratory distress till admission formalities are completed. The six oxygen-on-wheels ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: With the hope of helping Covid-19 patients cope with anxiety, singer Lopamudra Mitra has decided to offer free online entertainment to patients. All that patients need to do is to register on a WhatsApp number for free and ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Don Bosco Park Circus has made its premises on Darga Road available for a walk-in swab collection centre for RT-PCR tests that are being done in association with Thyrocare and CII Young Indians Kolkata. The facility that is ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: The CBI arrested three senior Trinamool politicians, including cabinet ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, and former mayor Sovan Chatterjee in the Narada sting case in a dramatic early-morning operation on Monday. The twists and turns continued till ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee attended a virtual meeting with the group of ministers through video-conference from Nizam Palace, which was held at Nabanna, in which the decision to form the Vidhan Parishad was finalised. Chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: A day before Bengal’s new council of ministers was sworn in on May 10, governor Jagdeep Dhankhar issued a press note saying he had given the CBI sanction to prosecute Trinamool leaders Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim, Madan Mitra ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The West Bengal governor on Monday took note of the “total lawlessness and anarchy” in the state and told the administration to realize the “repercussions of such lawlessness and failure of constitutional mechanism”. Jagdeep Dhankhar used his Twitter ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Investigations into the death of 66-year-old city businessman Shrawan Kumar Birla, whose body was fished out of the Hooghly on Sunday evening hours after he went missing, have revealed that he did not have a history of depression ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Opposition parties on Monday blamed the BJP for trying to divert people’s attention from the ongoing pandemic and satisfy their political ego by carrying out arrests in the Narada case. Most parties termed the arrests as “politically motivated” ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of CID used drone imagery on Monday to map the area around Jorpatki booth in Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar, where CISF firing allegedly killed four persons during the fourth phase of polling in Bengal ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: “Arrest me too.” These three words from Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to CBI DIG Akhilesh Kumar at the agency’s 14th-floor office in Nizam Palace summed up the Trinamool’s response to the CBI arrest of three of its senior ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Public health experts on Monday appealed for political battles to be kept aside as Bengal battles its worst pandemic in which over 13,000 people have lost their lives and thousands more continue to fight Covid-19. “The sudden rush ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKolkata: Depression is a common adverse impact of many Covid-19 patients undergoing treatment in isolation. With the hope of helping Covid-19 patients cope with anxiety, singer Lopamudra Mitra has decided to offer free online entertainment to patients. All that ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: West Bengal on Monday registered 147 Covid-19 fatalities for the second day in a row, pushing the overall death toll to 13,431, a health department bulletin said. The state reported 19,003 fresh coronavirus infections, which took the overall ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaIMPHAL: The Manipur government on Monday extended the curfew imposed in seven districts of the state till May 28 to check spread of the virus. The state government had clamped 24-hour curfew in the seven districts of Imphal West, ...
18 May 2021 Times of IndiaInterdisciplinary artist Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee organised a digital memorial on Sunday evening to remember the work and life of the late and much-revered poet Shankha Ghosh. The show, Spardhar Janye began with an oration by poet and scholar Satchidanandan, ...
17 May 2021 Times of IndiaKOLKATA: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has started a sit-in demonstration in front of CBI office at Nizam Palace, protesting against the arrest of two Trinamool Congress ministers Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim and MLA Madan Mitra along with ex-Kolkata ...
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